Building an Intranet

Hi all,

I'm just looking for a bit of advice please: I'm building a site that is going to be on the www but it is going to effectively be an Intranet, i.e. people can only view content when they are logged in.

I'd rather not make every J! component and module, etc... 'registered' but is there a smarter and quicker way of having the front page a simple login box then nothing else available until the user has authenticated.

Many thanks,

Dave.

30 Mar 11

Hi Dave,

Off the top of my head, the Joomla menu system is pretty much the gatekeeper. If you made articles and modules public, but there was no public menu linking to them, I'm pretty sure they won't be accessible.

So maybe try having your main menu registered only. But having another menu that is public. This public menu should only have one item on it... the login view of the com_user component.

Not sure if that will work, but worth a try I reckon.

M

31 Mar 11

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. I think I've sussed it... using a plugin called JNoGuest and having the main menus registered only as you suggested. The dev site is here:

http://www.drb-holding4.co.uk/

Best wishes,

Dave.